Here at the Republican Party of Texas, we would like to send a well deserved ’Congratulations’ to Republicans across the state. For the third consecutive year, Texas has set a record by increasing the number of Republican elected officials to an all time high. Nationally, this was not a strong year for Republicans. But, here in Texas, we continue to endorse Republican principles of limited government that continues to produce a stronger job and housing market and balanced budgets.
Our sweeping victories in the 2010 election were fueled by a huge
Republican wave after President Obama’s first two years of office
produced nothing but more debt and failed policies. This wave helped
the State of Texas increase its Republican officeholders from 2,395 in
2008 to 2,974 in the 2010 election cycle. That drastic amount of growth
is nearly unheard of and many people expected our majority to decrease
in a Presidential year.
We proved them wrong.
The odds were against us this year but thanks to tremendous efforts put
forth by hard working Republicans across the state, we were not only
able to maintain our record number of Republican officeholders but increased
our
total by 217 to a staggering 3,191.
This is no small feat and, to top it off, we maintained one of the
largest Republican majorities in Texas history in the State House of
Representatives. On the District and County level, we made gains in
every catagory. From District Attorneys to Court of Appeals, to County
Commissioners to Constables, we were able to continue growing the
number of Republican held seats from 2,241 in 2008 to 3,012 in 2012, an
astounding increase of 771 seats. Overall we have 796 more
Republican elected officials in the State of Texas today than we did in
2008.
No other state in the country has the overwhelming number of Republican
officeholders as Texas does, and we remain the only state to have
elected nothing but Republican statewide officeholders since 1994.
This past month also marked the two year anniversary of the Republican
Party of Texas being completely debt free which allowed the party to
fund projects that were aimed at holding onto and expanding Republican
held seats statewide. One of these projects we are very proud of is our
mail program that allowed us to reach more people in Texas than ever
before! Over the course of the election we were able to create 59
different mail pieces that resulted in over 3,000,000 pieces
of mail being delivered to households across our great state.
On top of running an extremely successful mail program this year, we
also ran a successful phone program that resulted in more phone calls
being made for Republicans than ever before. Thanks to the hundreds of
faithful volunteers that came out to help in the Victory offices in San
Antonio, Harris County, San Patricio County, and Tarrant County,
875,000 volunteer calls were made to voters around Texas. It is this
level of grassroots organization that allows Texans to remain the
stalwart Republican stronghold it is today. In addition to the 875,000
volunteer calls made during the election, RPT was able to conduct
paid
phone calls that brought the total number of phone calls made this
year
to over 2.6 million.
This record setting election truly was a tremendous success for the
State of Texas and we cannot wait to continue to work hard with
Republicans everywhere and fight for a more responsible government and
conservative principles. Make sure to signup at the top of this page to
find out how you can help us set all new records in the next elections
and continue being the model for Republicans across the nation.